BETHEL — Our Lady of Snows Catholic Church hosted this year’s World Day of Prayer on March 4, with more than 60 people from local churches attending. They joined in this worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women of many traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer on the first Friday of March. Each year a different country serves as the writer of the worship service. This year the women of Chile developed the theme, “How many loaves have you?”

Coordinators were Rosemary McLean and Rosabelle Tifft. Twelve local church representatives who actively contributed as readers included: Locke Mills Union Church, Beverly Melville; Rumford Point Congregational Church and Locke Mills Union Church, Pastor Sondra Withey; West Bethel Union Church, Alice McInnis and Nesta Littlefield; United Methodist Church, Musa Brown; West Parish Congregational Church, Peggy Wight and Linda Davis; Episcopal House Church, Carolyn Gould and Lida Iles; Bethel Church of the Nazarene, Gerry Shimamura; Bethel Alliance Church, Pastor Kevin Bellinger; Andover First Congregational Church, Pastor Jane Rich; and Our Lady of Snows, McLean and Tifft. Rev. Dan Johnson, organist for West Parish Congregational Church, served as organist and representatives from area churches led the singing.

Planning committee members included Kay McMillin, Genevieve Donnellan, Alita Prada, McLean and Tifft.

World Day of Prayer 2012 will be observed worldwide on March 2, 2012, prepared by the World Day of Prayer Malaysia Committee with the theme, “Let Justice Prevail.”